2009 Reviews

June

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Secrets of the Baby Whisperer by Tracy Hogg

Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

The Hourglass Door by Lisa Mangum (YA)

The Other Boleyn Girl by Phillippa Gregory

You Could Do Better by Stephanie Lehmann

Step On A Crack by James Patterson

Marked (House of Night #1) by P.C. Cast and Kristen Cast (YA)

Untamed (House of Night #4) by P.C. Cast and Kristen Cast (YA)

The Maze of Bones (39 Clues book #1) by Rick Riordan (MG)

The Last of Her Kind: A Novel by Sigrid Nunez

I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell by Tucker Max

Garlic and Sapphires:  The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise by Ruth Reichl

Something Borrowed by Emily Giffin

Shadow of The Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The Shipping News by Annie Proulx

The Camel Club (#1) by David Baldacci

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (#7) by J.K. Rowling (MG)

The Soprano State by Bob Ingle and Sandy McClure

The Host by Stephenie Meyer

The Late Lamented Molly Marx by Sally Koslow

The Shadow Year by Jeffrey Ford

Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse # 1 ) by Charlaine Harris

Living Dead In Dallas (Sookie Stackhouse #2) by Charlaine Harris

Shadow of Betrayal by Brett Battles

July

Club Dead (Sookie Stackhouse #3) by Charlaine Harris

My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Limitations by Scott Turow
Dead to the World (Sookie Stackhouse #4) by Charlaine Harris
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Dead as A Doornail (Sookie Stackhouse #5) by Charlaine Harris
The Yankee Years by Joe Torre
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Definitely Dead (Sookie #6) by Charlaine Harris
Homer and Langley by E.L. Doctorow
South of Broad by Pat Conroy

August

The Castaways by Elin Hilderbrand
One For the Money by Janet Evanovich
All Together Dead (Sookie #7) by Charlaine Harris
Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater YA
The Confessions of Edward Day by Valerie Martin
Davey Big Head by Peter Hayden (children's)
That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo
Sugar Time by Jane Adams
From Dead to Worse (Sookie #8) by Charlaine Harris
Two for the Dough (Stephanie Plum #2) by Janet Evanovich
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Island at the End of the World by Sam Taylor
Close Encounters of the Third-Grade Kind by Phillip Done

September

Catching Fire (The Hunger Games Trilogy #2) by Suzanne Collins (YA)
Mr. Darcy, Vampyre by Amanda Grange
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Bran Hambric: The Fairfield Curse by Kaleb Nation (MG)
Evermore by Alyson Noel (YA)
Dead and Gone (Sookie #9) by Charlaine Harris
Blue Moon by Alyson Noel (YA)
A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
Cake Wrecks
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
Defining Twilight by Brian Leaf

October

The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
Obama's Blackberry by Kasper Hauser
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
How Successful People Think by John C. Maxwell
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
Chin and The Magic Stones by L.J. Salazar (MG)
The Ghosts of Belfast by Stuart Neville
How to Be a Hepburn in a Hilton World by Jordan Christy

November

Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell
Tempted (House of Night #6) by P.C. Cast and Kristen Cast (YA)
True Blue by David Baldacci
The Ninth Daughter by Barbara Hamilton
Three to Get Deadly (Stephanie Plum) by Janet Evanovich
Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (YA)

December

Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson
A Better High by Matt Bellace
Shadowland by Alyson Noel (YA)
Malice by Chris Wooding (YA)
The Gift of an Ordinary Day by Katrina Kenison
Sarah's Key by Tatiana deRosnay
Four to Score (Stephanie Plum) by Janet Evanovich